I grew up with Supergrass, and they remain one of the best live bands around...especially in what became their trademark festival slot...about 7pm, just as things are getting going. They played proper crowd-pleasing, singalong sets too. And those first 3 albums are great too.

others from the mid-90s era (I don't like to use the term Britpop, but you know what I mean), although in my humble opinion, their best days were already long behind them. It'll be interesting to see what they do next...

Seen them a couple of times in the past, and both times they put on a top show. Saw Hot Rats tother day in Oxford too, and the other guy (ie the guy who was in supergrass but not hot rats) came on at the end for a rendition of Caught by the Fuzz. The crowd went mental. Well, mental for oxford, anyway.

But in terms of songwriting craft and energy they had plenty when they started out - first three albums had some great singles on it (bizarrely my favourite is 'going out') but they lost the spark after that. Saw them supporting 'Life on Other Planets' and it was dull, sadly.

I figured they bought themselves another few albums easy with that record. Seemed like a great direction to take the band and one they could mine for years. Instead, Diamond Hoo Haa not only took them backwards, it was also crap.

reform in a couple of years for their re-union tour. There's no way they would have sold out Brixton otherwise, great band that they are. I'm surprised there hasn't been a Britpop tour yet similar to the 'Here & Now' thing.

that, in 2020, Franz split like this following a slow (but not overly exaggerated) decline. They'll play top 4 mainstage / headlining second stage festival slots til the last but become more of a given, as Supergrass did. People then retrospectively realise they were a fucking incredible singles band, and had two absolute stonking albums and a few other good to great ones.